"When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money."

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Source : "Abbas Kiarostami". Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

Anthony Minghella

#Taken Quotes #Trying Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.”

Source : Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.48, Macmillan
“Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.”
“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”
“Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.”
“Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.”
“People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.”
“When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.”

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